Description: Focuses on economic issues in various health care industries, such as the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Differences between health care and other industries, regulatory issues involving establishing efficacy and cost-effectiveness of treatments, strategic issues in global marketing and pricing, use of e-commerce and information technology, and formation and management of various alliances, are addressed. Visiting speakers come from academia, government and industry.
Course #: 15.141
Professor(s) who recently taught this course:
Ernst Berndt
Stan Finkelstein